On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 06:24:58PM -0400, Marc Boucher wrote:> > The inherent instability of binary modules is a religious myth. Any > module can be stable or unstable, depending on how it's written, tested > and the environment (hardware/evolving APIs it depends on). For > example, Apple's current Mac OS X is extremely stable imho, despite the > fact that their hardware drivers are generally binary-only.> > The same goes for trustworthiness. It's a matter of point of view / > preference whether you trust open-source projects and their security > (which can be far from perfect, as evidenced by the recent break-ins in > various servers hosting source repositories) more than stuff produced > by a corporation. Every model has disadvantages and advantages.

You are missing the point. Badly. All software sucks, be it open-sourceof proprietary. The only question is what can be done with particularinstance of suckage, and that's where having the source matters.-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.orgMore majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/